Could you clean up your tags? I find it extremely difficult to read.
Well, highly unlikely means there's still a chance.
Basically, if you ARE attracted to them, you would be a pedophile. (at least to a degree)These exist, so yes there IS a chance. But it is highly unlikely and extremely disturbing that there are so many people with a pedophilious streak in Gosho's world. So not only does Gosho have a strange ability to think up the most elaborate murder plans, he also likes little children. For God's sake, lock that man up already!
(There is nothing wrong with being a pedophile. It's not their fault they're attracted to children, they're just incredibly unfortunate. Basically they can only satisfy their need by rape and violation.)
I agree with you that much of that is personal preference. And you have every right to have different views from me.
Still, I think Ai is more capable of understanding Shinichi than Ran. But it's hard to say really and if you think differently that's cool with me.
I don't think, however, that you can honestly think that Ran developped her morals and beliefs COMPLETELY indepently from Shinichi.
Edit: Cheers for cleaning up the code. I know how annoying that can be when you have that many quotes. I'm just gonna comment on a few things I hadn't noticed previously/you edited:
The same thing applies to Ran, not just Haibara. Even though Ran thinks of Shinichi as a detective freak, she still respects his interests.
Still, she cannot partake in his detective work. And I don't think she's as attracted to Shinichi solving his cases as Kazuha is with Heiji. Once he is his 17-year old self again, she might actually object to his detective work because it is officially the reason he had been away from her for such a long time.
True, we cannot say it for sure, but you made it sound like Ran is merely a copycat that copies Shinichi’s beliefs.
There's nothing wrong in copying his beliefs as they're fundamentally good ideas. Yet I would eventually tire (after being flattered) by someone who agrees with me on almost anything.
If we take the friendship case into consideration, one might say that Ran is capable of independent thinking and thus an intelligent argument which makes it less likely that Shinichi will get bored of her. There just aren't enough ShinRan moments to be sure.
Also, I like the childhood friend clichee, but I do think Gosho overused it. Seriously, I'm younger than most of the DC characters and I barely remember my childhood!
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